Career Fitness Program, The: Exercising your Options

by Sukiennik, Diane; Bendat, William; Raufman, Lisa

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0131702947

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Pub. Date:

1/1/2007

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The 8 th edition proves why The Career Fitness Program has endured over the years and continues to be the most widely used text in the field. Taking a unique, holistic approach to career decision making, this established, user-friendly text features cutting edge material. This book is a must-have source for new, returning and re-entry students. Designed to help two- and four-year college studentsstudents choose, change or confirm career choices, this best-selling workbook focuses on todayrs"s work realities and economy. Its broad scope encourages growth for students of all ages and backgrounds and helps them discover their best career fit. The text is comprehensive, easy to read, up-to-date, and goes beyond facts and figures by offering critical questions that help students focus on "Whatrs"s right for me?" Features include: bull; bull;Managing your Finances bull;Real Life Stories bull;Web Exercises bull;Multiple Intelligence Concepts Additional Support - in and out of the classroomhellip; The Career Fitness Program has its own companion website designed to help students review the text material. This site is accessible through(www.prenhall.com/sukiennik). In addition, for instructors and students alike, we encourage you to visit our Student Success Supersite. This valuable resource is at www.prenhall.com/success Features include: bull; bull;Majors Exploration bull;Career Advice bull;Web Links bull;Tips from Successful Students bull;Student Bulletin Boards bull;Faculty Resources

Preface

xiii

About the Authors

xvi

Introduction: On Your Mark . . . Get Set . . .

xvii

PART I PERSONAL ASSESSMENT

(122)

Taking Stock

(20)

Personal Assessment

(2)

Super's Self-Concept Theory

(2)

Overview of Life Stages

(2)

Understanding the Differences Between a Job and a Career

(2)

Box: Greatest contributors to quality of life

(1)

Striving for Career Satisfaction

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Sandra

(1)

Choosing and Changing Careers

(3)

Box: Sample career changers

(1)

Box: More career changers

(1)

Summary

(1)

Exercises

First Impressions

(1)

Your Lifeline

(2)

Identify Your Interests

(1)

Describe Yourself

(1)

Consider Occupational Status

(1)

WWWebwise

(1)

Exercise Summary

(3)

Programming Yourself for Success

(28)

I Am Building Self-Esteem

(1)

I Maintain a Positive Outlook

(1)

I Am Assertive

(1)

I Have a Sense of Humor

(1)

I Am Self-Confident

(1)

I Am Enthusiastic

(1)

I Use Positive Self-Talk (Affirmations)

(1)

I Visualize Success

(1)

I Have a Positive Self-Image

(1)

I Have Multiple Intelligences

(1)

I Learn from Role Models

(1)

I Initiate Action

(1)

I Am Persistent

(1)

I Am Disciplined

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Alan

(1)

I Demonstrate Emotional Intelligence

(1)

I Identify My Goals

(1)

Box: What makes workers succeed

(1)

I Am Self-Reliant and Career Resilient

(1)

I Am Flexible

(1)

I Have Purpose

(1)

I Have Passion

(1)

I Am Responsible

(1)

I Have Vision

(1)

I Am an Innovator

(1)

Summary

(1)

Exercises

Past Actions and Influences

(1)

Two Perfect Days: Your Future Vision

(1)

Emotional Intelligence Checklist

(1)

Positive Self-Talk (Affirmations)

(1)

Your Fantasy Careers

(1)

Making a Fantasy Real

(1)

Building Your Success Profile

(1)

Think About Enthusiasm

(1)

WWWebwise

(1)

Exercise Summary

(3)

Values Clarification

(20)

Defining Values

(1)

Clarifying Your Values

(2)

Real Stories: Meet Maria

(1)

Needs and Motivators

(2)

Box: Life balance

(1)

Finding Balance

(1)

Role of Leisure

(1)

Box: True values

(1)

Summary

(1)

Exercises

Values Grid

(2)

Explore Your Values

(2)

Your Values---Some Hard Choices

(1)

Reflective Questions

(1)

Top Five

(1)

Values Related to Careers

(1)

Values Related to Ethics

(1)

WWWebwise

(1)

Exercise Summary

(4)

Focusing on You: Personality and Interests

(28)

Exploring Personality

(8)

Activity: Identifying Your Personal Preferences

(4)

Box: Decisive Types

(1)

Box: Exploring majors

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Holly

(1)

Identifying Fields of Interest

(1)

RIASEC (Holland Interest Environments)

(9)

Activity: Sample Majors Related to Holland Types

(1)

Box: Holland Interest Environments and hobbies, abilities, and careers

(2)

Activity: Interest Areas and Worker Trait Groups

(2)

Activity: Identifying occupational interest areas

(2)

Career Clusters

(1)

Summary

(3)

Exercises

Your Personality Type

(1)

Your Holland Interest Environment

(1)

Your Occupational Interests

(1)

Job Clusters

(1)

Interest Inventories

(1)

Classified Careers

(1)

College Catalogs

(1)

WWWebwise

(1)

Exercise Summary

(3)

Skills Assessment

(24)

Defining Skills

100

(1)

Identifying Your Skills

101

(2)

Analyze Your Accomplishments

102

(1)

Real Stories: Meet John

103

(6)

Use the DOT to Identify Skills

104

(1)

Box: Sample job descriptions from the DOT

105

(1)

The Portfolio Employee

106

(1)

Activity: Assessing your skills

107

(2)

Identifying Transferable Skills

109

(3)

Transferable Skills of a Liberal Arts Major

109

(3)

Box: People skills

112

(1)

Your Most Valuable Assets: Your Personality Traits

112

(4)

Box: Identifying the transferable skills of a teacher

113

(1)

Box: The Scans report

114

(1)

Box: Using Scans skills

115

(1)

Box: Describing skills

116

(1)

Summary

116

(1)

Exercises

Experiography

117

(1)

Accomplishments

118

(1)

Description of Accomplishments

118

(1)

The Skills

118

(1)

Your Favorite Skills

118

(1)

Ideal Jobs

119

(1)

Scans

119

(2)

Skills Review

121

(1)

WWWebwise

122

(1)

Exercise Summary

122

(1)

PART II THE WORLD OF WORK

123

(96)

The World and You

125

(40)

Societal Influences on Career Choices

126

(1)

Striving for Equality in the Workforce

127

(8)

Gender Roles

127

(1)

Box: Equity definitions

128

(2)

Box: High wages vs. life/balance issues

130

(1)

Age and Opportunity

131

(1)

Affirmative Action

132

(1)

Box: Women in the workplace

133

(1)

Other Cultural Considerations: Valuing Diversity

134

(1)

The Changing Workplace

135

(10)

The Need for Knowledge Workers

136

(1)

The Importance of New Technology

137

(2)

Box: The new economy vs. the old economy

139

(2)

The Global Economy and the Changing Corporate Structure

141

(2)

Box: Fastest-growing small-business-dominated industries

143

(1)

Small Businesses

143

(1)

Woman-Owned Businesses

144

(1)

Box: Temporary work

144

(1)

Temporary Agencies/Leasing Companies

144

(1)

Box: Entrepreneurial opportunities

145

(1)

Trends: The Twenty-First Century

145

(2)

Liberal Arts Majors Have Marketable Skills

146

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Jessica

147

(3)

Lifelong Learning

148

(1)

Box: Multimedia revolution ignites creative industries

149

(1)

Job Growth Trends

149

(1)

Finding Your Place in a Changing World

150

(3)

Box: Job growth throughout the next decade

151

(2)

Facts and Figures

153

(5)

Box: New and emerging occupations

153

(5)

Exercises

First Impressions

158

(1)

Gender Roles Questionnaire

159

(1)

Pros and Cons

160

(1)

Famous People

160

(1)

Small Businesses

161

(1)

Globalization of the Work World

161

(1)

Changing Nature of Work

161

(1)

WWWebwise

162

(1)

Exercise Summary

162

(3)

Information Integration

165

(26)

Brainstorming Career Options

166

(2)

Understanding Career Paths and Common Organizational Divisions

168

(1)

Strategies for Researching Career Options

169

(3)

Box: Questions to ask when researching a job

171

(1)

Box: Local government

172

(1)

Government Employment Opportunities

172

(3)

Box: DOT entry for copywriter

175

(1)

U.S. Department of Labor Publications

175

(1)

Employer Directories

176

(1)

Box: Research

176

(1)

Other Written Sources of Information

177

(1)

Newspapers

177

(1)

Trade Journals

177

(1)

Magazines

177

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Jackie

178

(2)

In-House Bulletins and Announcements

180

(1)

Computerized Information Sources

180

(5)

Selected Computerized Sources

180

(1)

The Internet

181

(2)

Box: Job market research sites

183

(2)

Exercises

A Tempting 10

185

(1)

I'd Do This Even if I Didn't Get Paid

185

(1)

The Grass Is Always Greener

186

(1)

Job Research

186

(1)

Local and Internet Resources

187

(1)

Gathering the Facts

187

(1)

WWWebwise

188

(1)

Exercise Summary

189

(2)

Making Decisions

191

(28)

Overcoming Barriers to Decision Making

192

(1)

Decision-Making Strategies (Good and Bad)

193

(2)

Box: Ways to make decisions (strategies)

193

(2)

Real Stories: Meet Art

195

(1)

Conditions for Change

196

(1)

A Decision-Making Model

197

(1)

Rational/Linear Decision Making

197

(2)

Box: Decision styles

199

(1)

Intuitive Decision Making

199

(1)

Goal Setting

200

(1)

Box: Sample goal and objectives

200

(1)

Box: Time management strategies

201

(1)

Managing Your Financial Resources

201

(3)

Setting Financial Goals

202

(1)

Saving Money

202

(1)

Establishing a Credit Rating

202

(1)

Insurance and Health Needs

203

(1)

Budgeting

203

(1)

Stress Management

204

(1)

Box: Stress management techniques

205

(1)

Deciding on a Major

205

(1)

Box: Tomorrow

206

(1)

Deciding on Training

206

(1)

Deciding on Change

206

(1)

Summary

207

(1)

Exercises

Ranking Yourself

208

(1)

Reviewing Goal Setting

208

(1)

Write a Goal Statement

209

(1)

Task Identification

210

(1)

One Year to Live

210

(1)

Meeting Your Needs

210

(1)

Your Energizers

211

(1)

Recent Decisions

211

(1)

Priorities

211

(1)

Irrevocable Decisions

211

(1)

Harmful Decisions

212

(1)

Limiting Decisions

212

(1)

Contingent Decisions

212

(1)

Values

212

(1)

Factors Adversely Affecting Decisions

213

(1)

What If

214

(1)

Specific/Nonspecific Objectives

215

(1)

Test Your Assumptions

215

(1)

Timesavers

216

(1)

Short- and Long-Term Goals

216

(1)

WWWebwise

216

(1)

Exercise Summary

216

(3)

PARTS I & II CHAPTER SUMMARIES

219

(10)

Putting It All Together to Reach a Tentative Career Goal

Chapter 1 Exercise Summary

219

(1)

Chapter 2 Exercise Summary

220

(1)

Chapter 3 Exercise Summary

221

(1)

Chapter 4 Exercise Summary

221

(1)

Chapter 5 Exercise Summary

222

(1)

Chapter 6 Exercise Summary

223

(1)

Chapter 7 Exercise Summary

224

(1)

Chapter 8 Exercise Summary

224

(1)

Quick Impressions

225

(1)

Information Integration and Goal Setting

226

(3)

PART III JOB SEARCH STRATEGY

229

(107)

Targeting Your Job Search

231

(32)

Box: Your comprehensive job search strategy

232

(1)

Designing a Comprehensive Job Search Strategy

233

(1)

Your Job Search: Getting Started

234

(3)

Understanding and Using Classified Ads

234

(1)

Promoting Yourself Through Mail and E-Mail

234

(2)

Understanding and Using Employment Agencies

236

(1)

Volunteering

236

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Xiao-Ying

237

(1)

Box: Internships

237

(1)

Interning

237

(1)

Box: The Princeton Review Online: America's top internships

238

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Felipe

238

(1)

Box: Employers rate experience

239

(1)

Starting Your Own Business

239

(2)

Home Businesses

239

(1)

Box: An innovative approach to the job search

240

(1)

Getting Help to Start Your Own Business

240

(1)

Box: Women-owned firms

241

(1)

Franchising

241

(1)

Using Career Planning Services

241

(1)

Box: Franchise information

242

(1)

Box: A creative job search

242

(1)

Interviewing for Information

242

(6)

Box: Job hotlines

243

(1)

Information Interviewing---The Purpose

243

(1)

Information Interviewing---The Process

244

(1)

Information Interviewing Outline

244

(3)

Practicing Information Interviews

247

(1)

Networking

248

(3)

Activity: Information interviewing outline

249

(2)

Moving Beyond the Fear of Networking

251

(1)

Job Search While Unemployed

251

(1)

Planning for Action

252

(1)

Implementing Your Job Search: A Lifelong Venture

253

(2)

Real Stories: Meet Susan

255

(1)

Summary

255

(3)

Box: Selected online employment databases

256

(2)

Exercises

Support Network Checklist

258

(1)

Information Interviews

259

(1)

Personal Contact Log

259

(1)

WWWebwise

260

(1)

Exercise Summary

261

(2)

Preparing a Winning Resume

263

(44)

The Resume

264

(5)

Portfolios

265

(1)

Preparation for Composing Your Resume

265

(2)

Using Action Words

267

(1)

Box: Resume/portfolio review

267

(1)

Using the Right Key Phrases

268

(1)

Box: Action words

268

(1)

References

268

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Eduardo

269

(1)

The Appearance of Your Resume

269

(2)

Box: Resume problems

270

(1)

Electronic Resumes

271

(1)

Types of Resumes

271

(6)

Box: Guidelines for preparing and submitting electronic resumes

272

(1)

The Functional Resume

272

(1)

Box: Resume template

273

(1)

Box: Sample functional entry under professional experience

274

(1)

Box: Sample chronological entry under professional experience

274

(2)

The Chronological Resume

276

(1)

The Combination Resume

276

(1)

Cover Letter Guidelines

277

(2)

Box: Resume cover letter template

278

(1)

Box: Resumes for international jobs

279

(1)

Application Forms

279

(3)

Box: Filling out application forms

280

(1)

Neatness Counts

280

(2)

Summary

282

(1)

Exercises

Resume Review Sheet

283

(1)

Create a Card File

283

(1)

Write Your Resume

283

(1)

Save Sample Work for a Portfolio

283

(2)

Critique Your Resume

285

(1)

Ask Others to Critique Your Resume

286

(1)

Write a Cover Letter

286

(1)

WWWebwise

287

(1)

Exercise Summary

287

(1)

Sample Resumes

288

(12)

Sample Cover Letters

300

(5)

Sample Letter of Introduction

305

(2)

Interviewing Successfully

307

(24)

Before the Interview

308

(3)

Box: Job search tips

309

(1)

Box: Company knowledge

310

(1)

Interview Guidelines

311

(2)

Dressing for Success

311

(1)

Practical Preparation

312

(1)

Segments of an Interview

313

(1)

Practice Questions

314

(2)

Box: Sample thank-you letters

315

(1)

How to Handle Illegal Questions

316

(2)

The Behavioral/Situational Interview

318

(1)

Real Stories: Meet Jose

319

(1)

Body Language

319

(2)

Video Interviewing

321

(1)

Learning from the Interview

321

(2)

Box: Sample questions to ask at the interview

322

(1)

Factors Influencing Hiring

323

(2)

Box: Factors that influence your success

324

(1)

If You Are Offered the Job

325

(2)

Box: Summary: Reviewing the interview process

326

(1)

Negotiating for Salary and Benefits

327

(1)

If You Do Not Get the Job

327

(2)

Exercises

Question Review

329

(1)

Practice Interview

329

(1)

WWWebwise

329

(1)

Exercise Summary

329

(2)

Future Focus

331

(5)

Managing Your Career

332

(1)

Developing Your Relationship Savvy

333

(1)

Developing Career Stamina

334

(1)

Embracing Career Fitness as a Way of Life

334

(2)

Box: Risking

335

(1)

References

336

(3)

Index

339

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